Six of Seven Seals — Part 1: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 Seriously, okay, we’re going to get into the Bible this morning, and we are talking about the book of Revelation, and today we’re going to be talking about six of the seven seals. Now, the approach to Revelation is strictly from the book of Revelation, and you’ve got to remember this, please. Get this in your cranial vacuum what I’m going to say. The Jews and the preachers, when Jesus came, had their charts. They had it all figured out what was going to happen, how it was going to happen, and they missed every point.

▶ 0:42 Do you realize that? You see, the Jews had it wrong the first time Jesus came. They were looking for a son of David to restore the kingdom to them from Rome, and the Messiah wasn’t coming to restore the natural kingdom from Rome to them. He was coming to put a kingdom in people’s lives. See, they were totally wrong, and we can be wrong today. They did not know the Messiah was God Himself when He came the first time. They didn’t have that in their charts and their predictions. They did not know.

▶ 1:25 It is things within that defile us, and not what we eat or what we wear. See, Seventh Day Adventists, they’re still into the food program. The holiness people are into no jewelry and no makeup, and you know, look pale and don’t go to hell. You know, and it’s not what we eat. We can eat pork, we can eat what, it has nothing to do with our character and nothing to do with our spiritual man and nothing to do with sin. See, it’s what comes out, those words and those actions, that’s what defiles us and condemns us.

▶ 2:10 They had doctrines of clothing, Sabbath day’s journey, you can only go so far on the Sabbath day, it’s not in the Bible, they made it up, the washing of hands and dishes and all this stuff. You see, they had all of these doctrines, and when Jesus came, they missed it totally. They didn’t know that John the Baptist was Elijah that was to come in the spirit, the forerunner of Jesus, and they cut off his head. They wanted and tried to kill Jesus, God Himself, which violated the Ten Commandments they claim to believe in. Amen. And a lot of these theoretical people about the second coming, they don’t balance their checkbook, they don’t stay married, they violate the very book that they say that they believe in, but yet they got this second coming all figured out.

▶ 3:10 And let me tell you something: preachers have made millions of dollars selling you a bill of goods, claiming to know the inside of the end time, when Jesus Himself and God Himself said twice, no man knows the day or the hour. They still predict the day, they still, still, still predict the year and the month and everything else, and it says plainly, what? Nobody knows but God Himself. And you buy their books, and you got the book to read yourself, and they’re making a fortune.

▶ 3:50 Literally, some believed Jesus was an old prophet risen from the dead. Look at that doctrine they conjured up. Well, this is one of them old prophets, I don’t know which one, but it’s one of them that raised from the dead. And they believed Jesus was a sinner. They called Him a sinner, and He’s God, and God cannot what? Sin. The Bible says there was no sin in Him. And this is what they said: if we leave Jesus alone, all will believe on Him. Well, duh, that’s the whole point. We’re supposed to be believing and trusting in and following Jesus Christ, but they wanted people to believe in their group, their doctrine, and leave Jesus. And this is what happens with the second coming teaching. We wind up leaving Jesus Himself, the most important person in the Bible, the goal of the Bible, and get into our petty little doctrines that mean nothing.

▶ 4:56 Are you with me now? My point is this: if they missed the first time, could it be possible we don’t know beans about the second time? See, they knew the Messiah was coming, just as we know Jesus is what? Coming again. We know that it says over and over He’s coming the second time. And so with that introduction, we’re going to be studying this book of Revelation. Even the apostles did not understand that Jesus was going to die. He told them He’s going to die, and they still didn’t get it. Isn’t that right? So just because we hear something, does that mean we got it?

▶ 5:42 No. No, in fact, Peter said, “Well, you can’t die. We’re not going to let you die.” They wanted to be in charge of others, the first, you know, they wanted to be number one. They wanted to build three tabernacles when Jesus was transfigured. They wanted to build one for Jesus, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. See, they got it all wrong, and these are the apostles, the chosen twelve. John the Baptist, after declaring that Jesus was the One to come and take away the sins of the world, check this out. After John the Baptist declared and baptized Jesus, then a little bit later he sends his disciples to Jesus and said, “Are You the One?” And yet in this day and hour, these guys are proclaiming they got all this knowledge.

▶ 6:37 And the guy that wrote The Late Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsay, has changed his theory twelve times that I know of, because he predicted some things that did not happen, so he had to rewrite his book, and people bought it again. And they just keep buying it, like Hal Lindsay got some kind of personal insight that no one else has. Are you with me? So with that in our cranial vacuum, we don’t have a cranial vacuum anymore, we got something in there, you know, let’s just keep this thing simple. All right, what are we teaching on today? Six of the seven seals. You remember in the book of Daniel, Daniel himself, that they use to twist Scriptures and get these ideas, was told to shut up the words and seal the book.

▶ 7:36 Are you there? And in the last chapter, when the angel is talking to Daniel, Daniel says, “I heard, but I understood not.” Could it be possible, when we read the book of Revelation, we are hearing but we’re not getting much understanding out of it? And Daniel, who was one of the three heroes of the Old Testament, did not understand what the angel was saying. Could it be possible we don’t always understand things, and there’s nothing wrong with it? And this is the point: when Jesus came the first time, they started understanding as things happened, the virgin conceiving and having a child.

▶ 8:25 See, then as it was preached and as it happened, then they started what? Getting understanding. All their charts didn’t amount to anything, all their programs and all their ideas they come up with had to be thrown out when it started happening. And it could be the same way when Jesus comes the second time. When He starts doing something, we’re going to go, “Oh, that’s what that is! Oh, that’s what that is!” Because God is doing something again, and we can identify it as He does it, and we may be totally wrong in saying how He’s going to do it. Could that be a good amen? Hallelujah.

▶ 9:06 And with that in your head, I told you this is a college course. This isn’t for wimps. This is serious teaching. You know, in college you listen to the professor and then you got to go home and study for hours to get it. Are you there? So we got a bunch of non-wimps in here this morning. You came to hear this tough teaching, hard to sit there. Okay, we got a picture of the Lamb, and the seven seals are open, there, of the book in Revelation 5:5: “The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof.” What book? The Bible tells us about eight books in the Bible itself.

▶ 10:04 The Book of Life, you know, if our name’s in there, we go to heaven, if it’s not, we’re in trouble. The book of our works, in Revelation 20:12, everything we did, everything we say is written there, and if we’re in the Book of Life, we’re not judged out of the things in the book of works. Hallelujah. Anyway, we know it’s not that book. We certainly know it’s not the Scriptures, the Bible itself, because Jesus opened understanding to them. We know it’s not the judgment book of Israel and Babylon and Jeremiah, because that was to them. We know that the sealed book that Isaiah saw could be it. This is a sealed book. Isaiah saw a sealed book, but it was sealed, it wasn’t opened, and so it just goes on. He saw a sealed book and that’s it.

▶ 10:59 The book was locked up and stayed locked up, so maybe that could be it. The book of woe in Ezekiel that Ezekiel saw could be, because there’s a lot of woes when this book starts getting opened, there’s a lot of woes. And then the sealed book of Daniel that I told you about earlier, seal the book, all those things he saw, he said seal it up until the last days, but we got some revelation of Daniel’s sealed book. When Jesus came, Jesus said that the abomination of desolation, when you see that, you know that the time is nigh, in Matthew 13:14 and in Mark. But in Luke it says, “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.” So we know that the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD was the fulfillment of Daniel. We know that, so at least part of Daniel’s sealed book was opened up, if not all of it, then. And so Daniel’s book could have been fulfilled during Jesus’s birth, death, and resurrection, and the church period, the early church period.

▶ 12:19 Are you with me? Because we have some insight that some of Daniel’s book was open, so I doubt it’s Daniel’s book. Hallelujah. And we also know that Jesus came and all that in that book of Daniel. And then you got the book of remembrance. In Exodus 17:14, Amalek came and attacked Israel and picked on the stragglers and the weak ones, and God says, “I’m going to have a book of remembrance for him.” And a few hundred years later, sure enough, God says, “Okay, it’s time to judge Amalek for what he did back there to Israel and the weak ones and the straggling.” He picked on the stragglers and the weak ones, and He had Saul to rise up and destroy that nation and that king. Are you there? And so I doubt it’s that book, because people have been sinning ever since

▶ 13:18 Eve. And yes, there’s a book of remembrance, and He does come to correct and deal with that. Most likely the book in Revelation is its own book. It’s the book of wrath. It’s a book that explains God’s day of wrath that already has been explained throughout the Scriptures. It’s not a fresh new revelation. Are you with me? I wanted you to know there’s eight books in the Bible. See, there is a book of remembrance. When you do things, God remembers. All right, you can get it erased by what? Repenting. Absolutely. “I was wrong.” That’s the power of the blood. The power of the blood is endless, and there is nothing it can’t cleanse. Don’t ever forget that. And a simple humbling yourself and admitting you’re wrong and asking forgiveness and cleansing gets it done.

▶ 14:13 Hallelujah, that’s the bottom line. Now, let’s go. Okay, here we are, the four horsemen. The seven seals are going to be opened here. And here comes the interpretations of all these things. We feel like we got to interpret the stuff, and this is where we get into our problem. All right, we get four horses. The first one is a white horse with a rider that has a crown and a bow, and this horse and rider, they go conquering and to conquer. See, now they say that this is a war horse and rider, or most of them say this is the Antichrist. It never says in the Bible that the Antichrist rides a white horse.

▶ 15:16 Never. It never says that the Antichrist is some one person that’s going to rise up in the earth. Never says that anywhere. We conjure up these things and then we go to the Scripture to fit them in, and this is our problem. You see, John, the apostle John himself, said there are many antichrists. You see why? Because they oppose Christ. They say Christ hasn’t come in the flesh, He wasn’t the Word that came in the flesh, He wasn’t God. That’s antichrist. That’s opposing Christ. And so the Jews who do not believe Jesus has come the first time, they are what? Antichrist. Oh, you can’t say that, that’s intolerance. That’s the truth. They oppose Jesus, and God was

▶ 16:10 Jesus. Amen. That’s what the Scripture says, and that’s all the authority we have to preach, is what the Scripture says. But now we do have a Scripture in Revelation that tells us about a white horse. In Revelation 19:11, there was a white horse, and “he that sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. And on his head were many crowns, and out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, with it he shall smite the nations that war against him and his army.” Now we got somebody on a white horse, but they say, “Well, the one here is one crown, and over there it’s many crowns.” Well, dummy, when the elders bow before Him, they cast their crowns. He put them back on His head.

▶ 17:03 That’s as good a theory as yours. You think you’re going to get any honor when you stand before Jesus Himself? You’re going to give it back to Him. Why? You wouldn’t have any honor if it wasn’t for Him. So yeah, He’s going to wear your crown, because He’s the one empowered you to get your crown. Hallelujah. He says, “Well, He’s got a bow and not a sword.” Yes, but if you go through the Scriptures, you find Jesus came also with a bow and with an arrow. All right, so He can use the sword, the bow and arrow, they’re both the Word of God. But the bottom line is it doesn’t tell us who this white horse rider is. That’s the bottom line, it just says this guy. Now, does Jesus, is Jesus conquering? Yes. Is He going to conquer? Absolutely. It describes Him in the messages to the seven churches. Did He tell all of them to rise up and be conquerors? Yeah, be overcomers.

▶ 18:16 Hallelujah. And how do we overcome? Through Jesus Christ. Amen. How many of you are conquering? Have conquered things in your life through Christ? How many things are being conquered right now? They’re not quite down, but they’re being conquered, and how many of you go looking tomorrow for some other things to be conquered in your life? Yeah, that’s the King of kings and the Lord of lords riding on His white horse. He is conquering, He is going to conquer, and He has conquered. Amen. That’s as good a theory as them things that the Antichrist, where do you get that from? Because you’re wanting to build a theory you already wanted to reach, and so you’re grabbing for things, and you just say it means that. You cannot just say it means that when the Bible doesn’t say that. And the Bible never says the Antichrist rides a white horse, or the Antichrist has a crown, or the Antichrist has power to conquer people for God and win people to Christ. Are you with me?

▶ 19:27 Now, hallelujah. Is God wanting to smite the nations, the people? Isn’t that what He did on the day of Pentecost? Their hearts were smitten. Amen. How many of you had your heart smitten? Yeah, about Christ. Yeah, a change of heart. Absolutely. That fits way more into this Antichrist thing. Can I hear an amen? Amen. Now, the second horse is a red horse with a huge sword. Empowered, he’s been given power to take peace from the earth so that men slaughter one another. He isn’t slaughtering anyone, they’re slaughtering what? One another. The theory people call this anarchy, the absence of government, the disorder and the lawlessness that’s coming.

▶ 20:29 But let me submit to you, this has been going on since the beginning. People killing one another, hurting one another, it’s been going on ever since the earth started. In Mark 13:7 it says, “When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled. Such things must needs be, but the end is not yet. For a nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and there will be earthquakes in different places, and there will be famines and troubles. And these are the beginning of sorrows.” But the what? End is not yet. Did you hear that? And what do they say? “Oh, all these wars and earthquakes and volcanoes exploding and hurricanes, that’s the sign of the end.” Jesus said just the opposite. He said, [unclear], wars and rumors of war were going to happen, but what? The end, the second coming, is not yet. In other words, that’s no indication of the second coming. Are you out there?

▶ 21:47 But see, when they tell us what to believe, and when we read the Bible, we interpret the Bible to believe what they told us to believe, and yet Jesus Himself said just the opposite. Are you there? You see, and so people have been killing people ever since.